BLM’s Oregon Trail Interpretive Center Celebrates 25 Years

A Trail Milestone

Dorothy Mason wasn’t sure why she needed her vacuum cleaner for the grand opening of the Oregon Trail Interpretive Center. But she, along with fellow BLM staff, brought their vacuums along to celebrate the center’s ribbon-cutting on May 25, 1992. Turns out the BLM didn’t ...MORE

News of Record for May 22, 2017

Deaths Roy A. Coyle: 85, of Baker City, died May 20,2017, at St. Alphonsus Medical Center in Baker City. No service is planned at this time. Gray’s West & Co. Pioneer Chapel is in charge of arrangements. To light a candle in memory of Roy, ...MORE

Class 4A/3A/2A/1A Girls State Tennis

Huggins finishes fourth

Baker’s Gracie Huggins placed fourth at the Class 4A/3A/2A/1A state girls tennis tournament Saturday at Oregon State University in Corvallis. The BHS senior’s placing is the highest any Baker tennis player has finished in school history. Friday, the fourth-seeded Huggins defeated Crystal Peng of Delphian ...MORE

Greater Oregon League District Track Meet

Half-dozen Bulldogs to state

A half-dozen Baker track and field athletes are headed to the Class 4A state meet next weekend in Eugene. The six Bulldogs qualified for state after placing first or second in their events Saturday at the Greater Oregon League district meet at Baker High School. ...MORE

EDITORIAL

A fair penalty

There is no such thing as a happy outcome after the tragic and unnecessary death of an infant. But something positive can arise. And we believe the sentencing last week of a Baker City woman, who pleaded guilty in the co-sleeping death of her 5-week-old ...MORE

COLUMN

The Northwest’s biggest bang, 37 years later

It was the biggest bang to reverberate around the Northwest in our recorded history and yet its echoes, it seems to me, have quieted considerably even just a few decades on. Mount St. Helens. When the volcano in the Washington Cascades erupted on the morning ...MORE

Calls Of The Wild

NORTH POWDER — If not for the frozen saliva, Justus Gray might never have started his business. The saliva, to be clear, was his own. Gray was blowing into a plastic duck call, hoping to lure a few mallards to within shotgun range. Except it ...MORE

Bigfoot in the Blues?

There’s a plaster cast of a footprint on the wall of Scott Violette’s basement and it’s the sort of thing that could give a kid nightmares for weeks. Violette, who lives in Baker City, is wearing a camouflage cap emblazoned with the slogan “Squatch Hunter.” ...MORE